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Secrets of Famous Illusionists
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Secrets of Famous Illusionists | |
Author | Will Goldston |
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Publisher | Will Goldston, Ltd. |
Publication Date | 1933 |
Language | English |
Pages | 285 |
Subject | Magic biographies |
Secrets of Famous Illusionists -- seems to be very similar in content to Goldston's 1929 Sensational Tales of Mystery Men.
Republished by Gryphon Books, 1971
Contents
- Foreword by J. C. Cannell
- The Truth About Chung Ling Soo
- The Romantic Story of Carl Hertz
- The Great Lafayette--The Most Hated Magician
- Maskelyne and the Psycho Sensation
- Houdini As I Knew Him
- Did Houdini Fail?
- Some More New Facts About Houdini
- De Kolta's "Vanishing Lady" Secret
- The Truth About the Indian Rope Trick
- Tricks of Bogus Mediums
- Why I Am a Spiritualist
- Mediums I Have Sat With
- Magic and Crime
- The Great Kellar
- Howard Thurston's Rise to Riches
- Zancigs and their Brilliant Thought-Reading Code
- How Zomah Delayed a Murder
- David Devant--Master Magician
- A King of Modern Conjurers
- A Medley of Magicians
- My Magical Life
- "The Man Who Made Ice Famous"
- An Undertaker's Interruption
- The Prince Who Stabbed His Partner
- Ceeley and the Naked Lady
- Dante's "Disappearing Lady"
- The Handcuffed Clergyman--An Escape That Went Wrong
- A Conjurer's Rapid Courtship
- Muller the Mystic
- Dilemma of a Parliamentary Magician
- The Cornells and Their Ghastly Publicity Stunt
- Wishart and the Corpse
- The Tragedy of Hanco
- The £. S. D. of Magic
- Miscellaneous Magic